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Subject: misc/1625: Update clobers root's dot-files
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>Number:         1625
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       2.1.5 update overwrites root's dot files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 16 05:30:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lutz Albers
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:

The maschine has been upgraded from 2.1R to 2.1.5.

>Description:

Updating you machine WILL overwrite the existing dot-files (i.e. .cshrc)
of the root-account. There should be at least a warning.

>How-To-Repeat:

Update your machine to 2.1.5

>Fix:

Either update the scary update message (the easiest solution) or copy root's
dot-files to a general saved files directory (together with the /etc files).
Some other candidates for that directory would be the following dir's:
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm		(xdm-config)
	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs		(X font server config files)

	

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